Australian Artists E-K

  • # 47006

    HURLEY, Frank

    Hurley’s Australia : myth, dream, reality

    Selected and introduced by John Thompson. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1999. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. ix, 85, illustrated.

  • # 46989

    HART, Deborah

    Emily Kame Kngwarreye : paintings from 1989 – 1995. Works from the Delmore Collection

    Canberra : Parliament House, 1995. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated. Essay by Deborah Hart. Very scarce and early publication on Kngwarreye, preceding all the monographs on her.

  • # 46983

    BAIL, Murray

    Fairweather

    Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2009. Quarto, plum cloth boards in dustjacket, light edge wear and a little canted, 280 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Revised and expanded edition of Murray Bail’s definitive work on the life and art of Ian Fairweather. Scarce in the market.

  • # 46542

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    VII (Sculptural lithograph)

    Lithograph, 18 x 23 cms, signed lower right ‘Jacks 87 – 89’, numbered lower left 2/10, and titled lower centre ‘VII’, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original graphic by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s estate. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged …

  • # 46677

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 – 1981

    [New York and Sydney] : the artist, 1973 – 1981. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, manuscript title page, nine sections of original rubber stamp works, each between two and three pages each and containing five or six rubber stamps per page, each section separated with a blank page. An unique …

  • # 46676

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

    Melbourne : the artist, 1985. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, unpaginated, being an artist’s book of photocopied (xeroxed) designs.   Provenance : the estate of Robert Jacks.    

  • # 46654

    FRANSELLA, Graham

    Graham Fransella. Figures & landscapes. Paintings and prints 1984 – 2002 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2002. Folio, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 128, extensively illustrated, foreword by Edmund Capon, a mint copy housed in a grand clamshell box, lettered with design on the front panel, containing a similarly designed paper folio housing an original Fransella etching, Head, signed and limited to 100 copies. The deluxe edition, limited …

  • # 46622

    McCAHON, Colin; GASCOIGNE, Rosalie

    Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place

    Sydney : Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Melbourne : The Ian Potter Gallery, 1990. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 64, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held “on the occasion of the Sesquicentenary of New Zealand, 1990”. Scarce.

  • # 46520

    PULLIN, Ruth

    Eugene von Guerard. Nature revealed

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 302, extensively illustrated, a fine copy.

  • # 46764

    HEYSEN, Hans

    Hans Heysen. Watercolours and drawings (signed and inscribed copy, with the original illustrated prospectus)

    Text by Sir Lionel Lindsay and James S. MacDonald. Sydney : The Legend Press, c. 1952. Oblong folio, boards in dustjacket (a little edge wear), light offsetting to endpapers, 26 plates, signed by Hans Heysen on the endpaper ‘Yours very sincerely, Hans Heysen, Hahndorf Sept. 26th 1958’. Loosely enclosed : original prospectus with specimen plate, …

  • # 46817

    HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )

    Action Man Story

    Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a hint of foxing), 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian artist while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is …

  • # 46917

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    S.T. Gill & his audiences

    Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous …

  • # 46876

    DUTTON, Geoffrey

    Paintings of S. T. Gill

    With an introduction and commentaries by Geoffrey Dutton. Adelaide : Rigby, 1962. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. 12; twelve tipped in colour plates, glassine wrapper.  

  • # 46891

    HART, Deborah

    Joy Hester and Friends

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 136, illustrated. Detailed monograph from a major survey exhibition.

  • # 46834

    GRANEK, Walter

    The art of Laurence Hope

    Brisbane : The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2002. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, 111pp. An attractive monograph featuring colour reproductions of Hope’s work, produced to coincide with the retrospective held at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.

  • # 46828

    HENSON, Bill (1955 - ); GREGG, Simon

    Bill Henson : dark desire

    Sale : Gippsland Art Gallery, 2014. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 76, fully illustrated with Henson’s photographs. Essay by Simon Gregg. Limited to 500 copies. An as new copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, 29 November 2014 to 1 February 2015. “‘Dark Desire’ explores Henson’s enduring fascination with darkness …